A Drunken Spring in the Second Wife's Hall

On the very night of their marriage of convenience, her husband drew his last breath. The newly widowed Xie Qingqing knelt before the funeral altar in mourning clothes, but kept a list of potential new husbands clenched in her hand.

Before the seventh-day memorial had even passed, Lu Zhao, her powerful brother-in-law, kicked open her door and snatched her household registration. “Sister-in-law, a widow of the Lu family can't just leave whenever she pleases!”

He thought she was a climbing vine looking to latch onto a powerful family. He had no idea that she had married into the Lu family to uncover the truth behind the blood feud that had destroyed the Xie family.

She bowed her head meekly. “You're right, Fourth Uncle.” But as soon as she turned away, she slipped poison into his tea.

He drank it, gripped her chin, and sneered. “You've got some bite. You're fit to be my sister-in-law.”

No one knew that he spent every night in the outer courtyard of her residence, ostensibly to keep watch, but in truth to protect her.

She carefully pursued the case, and he pressed her at every turn, putting a weapon in her hands. She meticulously prepared poison, and he willingly tested it.

Until the day he took a fatal arrow for her and collapsed into her arms, covered in blood. With his final breaths, he whispered in her ear:

“Xie Qingqing, my brother asked me to protect you for three years... But now, I want to protect you for the rest of your life.”

Key tags: #ForcedPossession #MutualHealing #SisterInLawRomance #MarriageFirstLoveLater #PoliticalIntrigueAndRevenge